Hurlford Primary School and Early Childhood Centre

Hello Primary 2B,

Hope we all enjoyed our weekend and are all set for the new week. This week we will be starting our new topic – food and farming. Ask your family what they know about farming. They might even know someone who is a farmer. This week we will be exploring different technology that farmers use such as, combine harvesters. We are focusing on our addition strategies as well this week and last week we were counting 10 from any number and with a bit more practice we will be super at this.

I made a mistake on the last blog post about the new days for reading books. Very sorry! Biff will get new reading books on Monday and Thursday. Kipper and Floppy will both get new reading books on Tuesday and Friday. Remember to practice the books at home and always put them back in your bag as we use them every day. Ask your child to retell the story and quiz them to find certain words within the book for an extra challenge.

We have been looking at the “ee” phoneme this week. A bit of a nicer phoneme than last week as we have lots of words with “ee.” Here are this weeks words for the groups and common words that need to be practised.

Red group – green  three  sleep  sheep  queen

one  first  little

Green group – feel  tree  need  deep

one  first  little  me

Blue group – pin  pat  pan  cap  nap

go  got  get

Home learning task – last week we took pictures of objects in the classroom and learned that the objects are called common nouns. Go on a noun hunt. You can use a camera or your own eyes. Try and find 10 nouns. REMEMBER if you can photograph something it is probably a noun.

Could I also ask for a favour? If you can spare them, could you possibly send in the cardboard part of your kitchen roll and toilet roll when they are done with them over the next few weeks. Only if you have them to spare and are not needing them for something yourself. Please don’t buy extra, just if you can spare it. We will be using them to make adding machines and will need some in December for Christmas crafts. Thanks very much in advance.

Hope you all have a fantastic week! 🙂

Miss Baillie

Hello P2B,

We has a fantastic time last week doing our Halloween activities. Unfortunately we did not have time for our jokes on the Friday as we were so busy enjoying our activities. We are going to tell our jokes on Wednesday afternoon so make sure you remember them. On Monday we practiced our Spanish as we learned about the Spanish holiday Dia de los muertos. We will learn about Guy Fawkes this week and make big poppies for our class window on Friday. Make sure to look out for them on Friday after school. The class have got poppies home to decorate and put in your window at home (similar to the rainbows during lockdown) to remember those that fought in the war.

We have been looking at the phonemes “ph” and “n” this week. Here are some words to practice at home. Along with your common words that need to be learned to aid reading and writing.

Red/green – Phil,  graph,  phone,  photo,  dolphin

out,  now,  new

Blue –  pin,  nap,  net,  sand,  hand

can,  we,  into

As of next week reading books will be given out on different days. Try to read the book every night and discuss what the story is about. Please ensure reading books and the home learning pack that p2 were given are in their bags everyday as we use them in class and I will be swapping some things in the home learning pack from time to time. Biff will get their new book on Monday, Floppy will get their new book on Tuesday and Kipper will get their new book on Wednesday.

Home learning task – last week we looked at symmetry and used a mirror to make symmetrical pumpkins. Use any resources you have (for example, sticks, stones, building blocks etc) to make symmetrical pictures. Remember for it to be symmetrical it needs to be exactly the same on both sides. Here are some pictures to inspire your creations.